Re-presentation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Re-presentation is a noun meaning Presentation again or anew.
Meaning
Presentation again or anew.
More Meanings
- (Catholicism, by extension) Presentation anew of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ through the Eucharist.
Example Sentences
...but one constant of his work was his thinking about the theology of the eternal sacrifice (self-offering) of Christ on the cross and its relationship to the Eucharist. Jones was particularly interested in the relationship between the Mass and time, and constantly meditated on the Mass’s ability to touch all moments of history through the dynamic of “re-presentation” (anamnesis).
The social basis and critical tool within the theory is its emphasis on re-presentation. The hyphen is important here as it highlights the ongoing, the relational and fundamentally the contested nature of re-presentation. It reminds us of the argumentative character of dialogue and practice (Billig, 1998; Howarth, 2003), and so presents us with the possibility of agency, resistance and social change.
Word Forms
- re-presentations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include revisualization, reframing, retranslation, reperformance, redescription, redisplay.
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